Indo‑Pakistani “hybrid war” for Kargil

Authors

  • Hubert Królikowski Jagiellonian University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.40.24

Keywords:

Indo‑Pakistani issues, Kargil, hybrid war

Abstract

The armed conflict in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine introduced a new notion of hybrid war into security studies, but such kind of armed conflict is not anything new. History of wars provides at least a few examples when a country was attacked not by conventional armed forces, but by a mixture of special forces, information campaigns and backdoor proxies. Such armed struggles have taken place many times before, for example, during the so called Kargil War in 1999. Lessons for India emerged from the Pakistani operation in Kargil region necessitating a holistic national security review as well as rethinking of the nature of conflict and conduct in the new strategic environment and are very similar to the lessons learnt today by NATO, Poland and Baltic states concerning current warfare in Ukraine.

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Author Biography

Hubert Królikowski, Jagiellonian University

Is a Full Professor at the Institute of the Middle and Far East, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He holds Ph.D. in Military History and a degree of Doctor Habilitatus in National Security, from National Defence Academy. He is a Professor of Social Sciences since 2015.

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Published

2016-02-05

How to Cite

Królikowski, Hubert. 2016. “Indo‑Pakistani ‘hybrid war’ for Kargil”. Politeja 13 (1 (40):395-414. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.40.24.